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Can anyone recommend me some songs with killer grooves set by the bassline setting the dynamics of the song; to be specific I mean the bass player is creating the mood and melody of the song with their playing. Been listening to a lot of Joy Division and New Order recently and that got me thinking... Examples with a YouTube URL if possible please. Not sure If I made a hash of what I am trying to articulate but other examples would include Pearl Jam's WMA or the Clash's Guns Of Brixton...

Only first two tracks in the vid player really showcase the bass guitar, and even then they're not the best examples. Just get a hold of their Leaves Me Blind and Dream It Down albums. Or have a squiz at their myspace page, which streams a selection of their best songs. My fave: "I Was Right".

And no Minutemen?
Double Nickels on the Dime is the daddy of great basslines. Anxious Mofo, Corona, Maybe Partying Will Help, Viet Nam, This Ain't No Picnic? Mike Watt was the daddy of punk bass brilliance.

Dam-Funk has been doing it for me recently he's got some serrious synth funk bass groove skills, he plays live and plays it all so almost counts as a band? He sounds like a home-made psychedelic Dr. Dre from the g-funk era. This track is pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYf_qrw2WQ

she isn't bad at the basslines but they are so sketchy in the mix that they don't get me grooving. Its really intruiging though, cos you can see her music doing diffrent things if it got slighlty remixed. At the moment its all dreamy and ghostly, all over the shop, nostalgic, kind of twee and meloncholic. But someone could really bring out the grooves and drums and make some serriously spaced out disco-synth-funk. I dunno I'm still getting into it really but I'm finding it pretty interesting.

i kinda know what you mean, but i tend to find the rhythm's still there, it's just a sketchy, 3 in the morning kind of rhythm, if i play it loud, i certainly get some kind of groove from it.

i suppose with someone with someone like Grouper doing the lo-fi thing when the pop songs come through they, they're better for being hard to find, and i sometimes get the same thing from Nite Jewel with rhythm and sometimes don't. I guess it's only her 1st album though.
or maybe bok bok or someone could do a funky mix.

I don't think I could handel a Bok Bok mix of Nite Jewel, he's not got the light touch for me. I think the Dam-Funk partnership would be better, it wasn't as shit hot as it sounded on paper but it was only one track and I think they where finding their feet too. I think they're a killer combo, as Dam-Funk sounds like a want Nite Jewel too a lot of the time, but more ummm manly and stright up. But then I'm kinda finding it hard to get into the shody lo-fi production thing, it all sounds like demos recorded on a windy moor to me. But then I do love the moors so who knows...

i don't know whether personally going to less gigs/ there not being ashton court anymore means i don't see the good bits of the bristol music scene, or it's just really not half as good as it was five/six years ago (indie wise, that is; obviously dubstep is pretty vibrant)

steveless are still about aren't they, and you've always got zun zun egui.

Amanda Tannen in Stellastarr* - She has some wicked bass lines in the band' new album 'CIVILIZED'. I wonder if it's out in UK??
Way back - Free - Fire and Water. One of the live version (sorry I don't remember which one) 's got the most wicked bassline ever!